After more than 10 weeks of intense negotiations, China has reached a basic agreement with the United States on the latest draft U.N. sanctions resolution to be imposed on North Korea for carrying out its fifth, and biggest, nuclear test, Security Council sources said ...

Just as China dominates the other new institutions of which it is a founding member — from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank — it is using BRICS to assertively push its own interests.

Philippine and United States military officials have agreed to scale back joint exercises and reduce U.S. troop deployments, a Philippine general involved in the talks said on Tuesday, though a statement issued by the allies spoke of “close cooperation.” The joint statement omitted mention ...

Facebook has built a tool for geographically censoring posts at the leading social network as it seeks a path back into China, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The New York Times cited three current and former Facebook employees, who asked for anonymity, ...

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said he discussed the disputed South China Sea with a “charming” Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte during an informal meeting late Tuesday. McCully said the pair had a wide-ranging discussion but declined to comment on whether Duterte’s controversial drug ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership but other Pacific Rim leaders are vowing to push market-opening efforts they say are vital for growth. The possible decline of the 12-nation TPP could give a boost to alternative initiatives ...

The chiefs of the Philippine armed forces and the United States Pacific Command say the two countries’ military ties remain robust, with both sides committed to their alliance and cooperation on maritime security, counterterrorism and humanitarian aid. The upbeat statement issued Tuesday at the ...

Authorities are investigating a Shanghai-based fried chicken chain for possible violations of social order over its sexually suggestive name — “Call a Chick” — and menu items, the Shanghai Daily reported on Tuesday. Chick, or chicken, is slang for prostitute in Chinese. The newspaper ...

Beijing’s air quality fell short of national standards on 179 days last year. That’s one reason why the world’s biggest coal consumer is likely to stick with its plan to clean up its energy supply — regardless of what President-elect Donald Trump does in ...

The United States will not tolerate any pressure from the Chinese government on family members of fugitives to get them to return from America, but can’t guarantee it has not happened, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. China’s most-wanted graft suspect, Yang Xiuzhu, gave ...

Entertainer Douglass Fearon attributes part of his success to the fact that “I’m an anomaly — I’m a black man in China.” For some of the relatively few black Americans who have moved to China, it has become a land of dreams. Fearon, a ...